We are soon reaching the middle of 2022 and as such we are getting closer and closer to C++23. I plan to show you more and more new features and fixes from the coming version. The first one was ded...
The Goal: A Process Of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
When a few months ago I read The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project, I learned that they are the modern IT-era reincarnations of The Goal. It was written in a similar style in 1984, but it was...
The 4 use of using in C++
When I write code I don’t only want to write code that is correct. I also want to write code that is understandable, and maintainable. I want to deliver code that is easy to read not only for the c...
The infamous bug of range-based for loops
Imagine that you used a feature of your favourite language without fear. Imagine that you used that feature endlessly, without having a second thought. You even promoted it in conversations, in cod...
Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe and Fast Code by J. Guy Davidson and Kate Gregory
If you are familiar with the Pluralsight courses of Kate Gregory, you won’t be surprised by the name of this book. While many consider C++ a complex language that always results in difficult to rea...
My first work experience with C++20
I joined a new team recently. We have our own internal microservices as well as libraries. While for microservices we support one main branch, for libraries we do have to support at least three, in...
Use strong types instead of bool parameters
There are some recurring themes in code reviews. Experienced reviewers often already have a template of comments somewhere for such recurring patterns. Sometimes only in the back of their minds, bu...
Storing references of pointers in containers in C++
This article is about the problem of storing vectors in a container and a bug I faced recently. Many would quickly find the conclusion that you should not store raw pointers, but you should work ...
Beyond Order: 12 more rules for life by Jordan B. Peterson
In his first book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B Peterson focused on the consequences of too much chaos in our lives and how to make it better, how to bring our lives more into ...
The Employee-Company triangle
After having read the title, you must think I forgot something. How can two vertices (the employee and the company) form a triangle? The answer is simple, the employee takes up two of the three ve...